Larger Families Chatter ~ May 2008-May 2009

[mountain mummy]

Cathie!! Huge congrats on your twins!!! When I was pregnant wit #4, we were actually hoping it would be twins!! (odds were good as we have a history of twins on both sides!) You'll do fine, I'm sure!

hehehe halltribe - when I just have TWO of my kids with me (the two youngest) alot of people tell me I must have my hands full - and I tell them that this is only half of them!!

But I'm used to having two or three under school age!!

[CathieW]

Hi ladies
We were kind of excited when we found out it was a huge shock for both of us. Thanks for your lovely welcome.

Cathie

[halltribe]

Tee Hee. The other day I took a friend of mine and her 3 kids to a soccer pratice while she had no car, my hubby looked after my kids. I thought great going somewhere where its not my kids I have to keep track of and I am not the freak with 7 kids! Not so my friend (God bless her) ushered me around to everyone introducing me to her friend with 7 kids! Soon I had a group of people around me asking me 20 questions! So much for going incognito!!!

[KimB]

I'm looking forward to going shopping with all of mine (once bubs is born) and seeing what type of other remarks people will come up with.

My kids range in age from 13 down to 20 months at the moment so will be interesting lol

[Pretty Butterfly]

Going out with our 5, and pregnant, I get people asking me how many of them are mine!! Should see there face when I say all of them!!!

It doesnt help that I am only 31, and really only look in my 20's.

But I wouldn't swap it for the world... We'd have more if we were millionares!!!

[halltribe]

Hey purple girl when is Kane's op???
My oldest (Cerebal palsy) boy has hip surgery in Feb (quite major) he has to be on bed rest with no sitting up for 6 weeks then has about 4 months learning to walk again. I am not looking forward to it. Its a big thing for the whole family.

I usually love going out with my kids but sometimes I do get sick of being stared at and talked about. Its my life and family and has nothing to do with anyone else!!

Feeling a bit tired today and wanna change my name from something other than mum for 5 minutes!!

[Pretty Butterfly]

I know those days honey!!!

Kanes Palate op should be Oct/Nov. We'll have to be in Sydney about a week. Kane has a small hip op when he is 5 also. They will take some hip bone and graft him a gum, and screw in fake teeth into the fake gum... Apparently its the worst of all his op's....

I asked our surgeon if he could take some of my hip instead, to save Kane from it, and he said no, it has to be perfect match to keep growing. I dont think many parents had asked before, he looked quiet shocked!!!

Your poor big boy... I hate kids having op's, its horrible. I cried all day with Kanes...